1907 in film

* January 19 - "Variety" publishes its first film review.* May 7 - Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. Electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Pieces of the film, the earliest survivng of the city [ [http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_harbeck_film.htm Vancouver History Archives: Harbeck film] ] , have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain. [ [http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/amia-l/2005/11/msg00202.html Request by Vancouver Public Library for further information] ] * June 20 - "L'Enfant prodigue", the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, opens in Paris.* November 28 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater (in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in 1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).* Carl Laemmle of Paramount experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiements lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." Syncroscope had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.* The Kalem Company founded in New York City by Frank J. Marion, Samuel Long, and George Kleine. They would make the first "Ben-Hur" film, directed by Sidney Olcott.

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